A thank you for this link to my good friend who parks her Coles truck in hers, and has a nice indoor play area for her 5 kids. Impressive 
I know, there is a lot wrong with it, and a couple of the lines are not good, to say nothing of the images in the clip, BUT there’s a lot good about it too – and after pushing twins out of mine, it kinda appeals to me
I know – while it celebrates the feminine, scorning the tight pussy mentality of our current culture, it perpetuates the shallow construction of women’s sexuality – the phallocentric concept of desire, the objectification of the rest of the body, the notion that women, regardless of their sexuality, want a big cock. Ho hum.
Had to edit my post to add this. I spent 4 hours driving in the car today and even though I had only watched the clip once, there were a couple of scenes and a couple of lines that I just couldn’t get out of my head, they just shat me so, so much. In fact I was hoping (and just a little afraid) that I would come in here and find an angry, eloquent rad fem ripping the clip to pieces…
Yes, the song is great up to 2.25, I love it, it makes me smile and want to sing along. Everything after that except for “Vigantic” makes me want to shout a lot and break my beautiful Powerbook. In fact the bit about the penis imperative is abhorrent and so far from the truth one begins to wonder if maybe a man wrote that part, and the line “It’s like a penis only reversible” is possitively repugnant, and it is not OUR vagina, it is mine damn it, mine, MINE, MINE!!! As for the bit where the chorus of blokes pipe up about their vaginas being 8 miles wide… They don’t fucking HAVE one and the vaginas that they have been blessed enough to come out of and the ones they have had the joy of entering ARE NOT THEIRS EITHER!! FUCK IT!
Why can’t I just have a laugh and move on *sob* I’m a humourless feminist… thank the Goddess.
So, yeah, sorry for inflicting that piece on you all, it is that first two minutes. It had me sucked in. Catchy tune too…
7 Comments
August 15, 2009 at 3:19 am
‘Humourless feminist’ is a common insult hurled at any woman who dares to challenge male supremacy. What is wrong with firmly stating this video is not ‘humour’ it is catering to dominant male-defined notions of female sexuality, wherein a heterosexual woman’s prime directive is the cater to insatiable male sexual demands.
I’ve just watched the video and it is nothing more than pandering to phallocentric mythical male sexuality. As you rightly said, since when did men have vaginas? Why are the women in this video all depicted in male-defined stereotypical clothing?
Promoting phallocentricism – ergo the worship of the mythical penis is not feminism. Likewise ‘vigantic’ another phallocentric myth because as we know mainstream pornography commonly portrays women being penetrated in all their orifices by the so-called ‘mighty penis.’ Bigger is indeed better when it caters to and promotes male-defined myths of what supposedly passes for female sexuality.
Since when did the vagina become the ‘reversible penis.’ News flash the clitoris is the central female sexual organ and penises are inflated ‘clitorises’ because a foetus before becoming sexed is always female and only when certain hormones ‘kick in’ does the female body become male. But that fact is always ignored by our male supremacist society because it is obsessed with phallocentricism.
The catchy tune is the ‘bait’ which sucks the viewer in and of course is designed to hide just which gender this misogynistic video is catering to.
August 16, 2009 at 9:19 am
I don’t mind being a humourless feminist that was quite firmly tongue in cheek
Interesting your comments about “vigantic” – I hadn’t thought about the context of multiple penetrations at all. I was happy to own vigantic because I have pushed a pair of twins and a breech bubba out of my vagina and that has overwhelmed my vagina’s other experiences… But now you mention it, the context of multiple penetrations is much more relevant to the theme of the song – Men’s Vaginas, Vaginas for Men.
And absolutely re your reversible penis. It was damn insulting to bring up the ole “Scabbard for Your Mighty Sword” bullshit in a song that was pretending to celebrate vaginas.
August 15, 2009 at 7:33 am
I know about catchy tunes getting under your skin, then realising that a song is not as good as we think.
I have just put on “Put the Blame on Mame” on facebook, without seeing that is quite offensive about her “whore” attitude.
I thought the song you choose was quite funny, but also very annoying, for it was so male-centric.
I did find the strippers imagery very hard to take, coz it such a “happy hooker” way of seeing them.
The whole song ended up annoying in how she said “not loose, not a whore”.
But it is so damned catchy.
August 27, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Heh, erm…sorry? *blush*
You’re totally right, of course. The things that appealed to me about the song was that a.) it’s by Storm Large, and I like her :-p and b.) she unashamedly uses the word vagina.I just really like the idea of singing loud and proud about my vagina, despite objecting to the meaning of the word vagina
But yeah, it is phallocentric, it is cock-worship and I’m sorry.
PS. Vagina!
October 10, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Before i say what i want to say, let me declare that I am
a)male
b)born muslim but currently consumate atheist
c)enthusiastic about sex but against pornography (for its wanton promotion of female objectification)
d)enthusiastic about performing cunnilingus on my sexual partners.
Now that you know a bit about me, I would like to say that you, madam, are indeed humourless. Your off-handed dismissal of the song’s assertion that ‘even [lesbians] enjoy [cock shaped] sex toys (and all that entails), betrays an unwillingness to tolerate any idea that threatens your narrow interpretation of feminist theory.
I’m an atheist living in a country where apostacy is punishable by death, and I am glad that the barbarism I confront on a daily basis has not robbed me of common sense and humour.
Lighten up, please.
Good day to you, madam.
October 10, 2009 at 4:49 pm
And you, Sir, are Everwrong *humourless laughter*
October 11, 2009 at 5:41 am
see, that’s better.